Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "student-protest"

1. The Dreamers (2003)

NC-17 | 115 min | Drama, Romance

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Anna Chancellor

Votes: 131,767 | Gross: $2.53M

2. A Taxi Driver (2017)

Not Rated | 137 min | Action, Drama, History

A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.

Director: Hun Jang | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hae-jin, Ryu Jun-yeol

Votes: 31,376 | Gross: $1.53M

3. The Double Life of Véronique (1991)

R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music

Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik

Votes: 53,019 | Gross: $2.00M

4. Away We Go (2009)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A couple expecting their first child travels the U.S. seeking the perfect "family home." They have misadventures and find fresh connections with relatives and old friends who help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney, Carmen Ejogo

Votes: 55,104 | Gross: $9.45M

5. Charlie Bartlett (2007)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A rich kid becomes the self-appointed psychiatrist to the student body of his new high school.

Director: Jon Poll | Stars: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, Kat Dennings

Votes: 66,724 | Gross: $3.95M

6. Youth of May (2021)

65 min | Drama, History, Romance

In May, 1980, during the turbulent times of the Gwangju Uprising, Hee-Tae and Myung-Hee fall in love. Their love seems destined by fate.

Stars: Lee Do-hyun, Go Min-si, Lee Sang-yi, Keum Sae-rok

Votes: 2,229

7. The Best of Youth (2003)

R | 374 min | Drama, Romance

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti

Votes: 23,224 | Gross: $0.27M

8. The Strawberry Statement (1970)

R | 109 min | Drama, Romance

An apolitical college student joins a group of campus protesters to meet girls but gets swept up in their cause and involved in a violent confrontation with police.

Director: Stuart Hagmann | Stars: Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Bud Cort, Murray MacLeod

Votes: 1,808 | Gross: $0.80M

9. More American Graffiti (1979)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Told in four different New Year's Eves in the mid 1960s, John, Terry, Debbie, Steve and Laurie deal with adulthood, the Vietnam war, peace rallies, and relationships.

Director: Bill Norton | Stars: Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat

Votes: 5,078 | Gross: $15.01M

10. Roma (1972)

R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses

Votes: 13,812 | Gross: $0.73M

11. Summer Palace (2006)

Unrated | 158 min | Drama, Romance

Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.

Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai, Lin Cui

Votes: 4,326 | Gross: $0.06M

12. Getting Straight (1970)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.

Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey

Votes: 1,648 | Gross: $3.86M

13. You Are Not Alone (1978)

Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

Two precocious boys explore their sexuality at boarding school.

Directors: Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen | Stars: Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg, Ove Sprogøe, Elin Reimer

Votes: 4,203

14. The Lost City (2005)

R | 144 min | Drama, Romance

A wealthy Havana club owner and his family are torn apart by the violent sociopolitical upheaval brought about by the transition from the dictatorial regime of Batista to the Marxist revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1950s Cuba.

Director: Andy Garcia | Stars: Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre, Bill Murray, Alfredo Armenteros

Votes: 9,924 | Gross: $2.48M

15. How Sweet It Is! (1968)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy

Photographer Grif Henderson is assigned a photo shoot in Paris. He decides to take his wife Jenny and his hippie son Davey with him on the shoot. Jenny unknowingly rents a house that ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: James Garner, Debbie Reynolds, Maurice Ronet, Terry-Thomas

Votes: 792

16. State of Siege (1972)

Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber

Votes: 6,071 | Gross: $1.13M

17. The King (2005)

R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller

A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father Dave, whom he's never met. He is the pastor at a Christian community church. He tells Elvis ... See full summary »

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Gael García Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Harring, Derek Alvarado

Votes: 7,474 | Gross: $0.28M

18. Something in the Air (2012)

Not Rated | 122 min | Drama

In the months after the heady weeks of May '68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.

Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Clément Métayer, André Marcon, Lola Créton, Felix Armand

Votes: 4,718 | Gross: $0.07M

19. Pornorama (2007)

94 min | Comedy

A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.

Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Tom Schilling, Karoline Herfurth, Michael Gwisdek

Votes: 793

20. Death of a Cyclist (1955)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corrà, Carlos Casaravilla

Votes: 4,504

21. Aakrosh (2010)

Not Rated | 146 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The Central Bureau of Investigation deputes two officers to investigate the disappearance of three medical students, which they believe to be an incident of 'honour killing' in a small, closed community.

Director: Priyadarshan | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Paresh Rawal

Votes: 4,092

22. Halls of Anger (1970)

GP | 96 min | Drama

An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transferred there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.

Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Calvin Lockhart, Janet MacLachlan, Jeff Bridges, James A. Watson Jr.

Votes: 437

23. Friends Forever (1986)

Unrated | 90 min | Drama

Sixteen year old Kristian is very shy, and is struggling to adjust to his new Copenhagen school. He makes friends with two very different boys, nonconformist Henrik, and bullying clique leader Patrick, who he soon discovers is gay.

Director: Stefan Henszelman | Stars: Claus Bender Mortensen, Thomas Elholm, Thomas Sigsgaard, Lars Kylmann Jacobsen

Votes: 540

24. Camouflage (1977)

Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the ... See full summary »

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul, Mariusz Dmochowski

Votes: 1,733

25. Rajnigandha (1974)

110 min | Drama, Romance

A Delhi-based woman in a steady relationship with her boyfriend is forced to come to terms with her true feelings when a job interview in Mumbai brings an old flame back in her life.

Director: Basu Chatterjee | Stars: Vidya Sinha, Amol Palekar, Dinesh Thakur, Rajeeta Kochhar

Votes: 838

26. Wild Tango (1993)

R | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime.

Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Fernán Mirás, Cecilia Dopazo, Imanol Arias, Antonio Birabent

Votes: 1,760

27. Joy of Learning (1969)

95 min | Drama

How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Votes: 1,164

28. Advocate (2019)

114 min | Documentary, Biography

A look at the life and work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years.

Directors: Philippe Bellaiche, Rachel Leah Jones | Stars: Lea Tsemel, Yasser Joubeh, Suheila Dweik, Ossama Amro

Votes: 382

29. Commune (2005)

Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary

A documentary on the Black Bear Ranch Commune, an alternative living community founded in 1968 in the remote North Californian wilderness.

Director: Jonathan Berman | Stars: Mahaj Seeger, Peter Coyote, Cedar Seeger, Mel Kramer

Votes: 431

30. Les assassins de l'ordre (1971)

107 min | Crime, Drama

A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.

Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jacques Brel, Catherine Rouvel, Paola Pitagora, Roland Lesaffre

Votes: 381

31. Nos frangins (2022)

92 min | Drama

Based on the story of 22-year-old Malik Oussekinean, whose death is believed was caused by an affair of police violence after several weeks of student protests against a university reform bill.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Reda Kateb, Lyna Khoudri, Raphaël Personnaz, Samir Guesmi

Votes: 203

32. Sandglass (1995)

70 min | Drama

The Sandglass is a story of two men whose friendship is tested through the 1970s and 1980s, one of Korea's politically tumultuous periods.

Stars: Choi Min-soo, Park Sang-Won, Go Hyun-jung, Lee Jung-jae

Votes: 66

33. The Fair Co-Ed (1927)

71 min | Comedy

Marion goes to college to pursue a handsome young man and discovers that he is coach of a women's basketball team.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Marion Davies, Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Winton, Thelma Hill

Votes: 754 | Gross: $0.49M

34. Veneno (I) (2018)

TV-14 | 96 min | Action, Biography, Drama

The origin and rise of the most famous Dominican wrestler of all time, Rafael Sánchez aka Jack Veneno, and his arch-nemesis, José Manuel Guzmán aka Relámpago Hernández.

Director: Tabaré Blanchard | Stars: Manny Perez, Pepe Sierra, Richard Douglas, Yamile Scheker

Votes: 506

35. Tiananmen (2019)

Documentary, History

It's been thirty years since the massacre at Tianamen Square in Beijing, where upwards of a few thousand students were killed in the military crackdown on their protests, the massacre which... See full summary »

Star: Shen Tong

Votes: 138

36. The Year That Trembled (2002)

R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War

The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.

Director: Jay Craven | Stars: Jonathan Brandis, Charlie Finn, Jay R. Ferguson, Meredith Monroe

Votes: 225

37. Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A college Principal objects to a nightclub opening near his campus.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Ruby Keeler, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Gordon Oliver

Votes: 192

38. Ora o mai più (2003)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

David, a student in Pisa who is about to pass his final exam, gets involved in an anti-globalist group.

Director: Lucio Pellegrini | Stars: Jacopo Bonvicini, Violante Placido, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Elio Germano

Votes: 403

39. Soweto Blues (2006)

90 min | Documentary

On the 16th June 1976, when students would be writing their mid-year exams, thousands of young people from all over Soweto gathered for a protest march that would change South Africa's history. "Soweto Blues" is a tribute to them.

Director: Faith Isiakpere | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Jackson Brown, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Jennifer Ferguson

40. When We Were Black (2006– )

Drama, History, Romance

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Stars: Sean Cameron Michael, Deon Lotz, Keenan Arrison, Matli Mohapeloa

Votes: 13

41. Gender Wars (2023 TV Special)

Documentary

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Stars: Linda Bellos, Julie Bindel, Finn Mackay, Kathleen Stock

Votes: 19

42. RideBack (2009– )

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama

Rin Yugata, a dancer, attends college after quitting ballet after an injury prevents her from performing in a play.

Stars: Tia Lynn Ballard, Stephanie Young, Bryan Massey, Terri Doty

Votes: 196

43. Bringing Down a Dictator (2002 TV Movie)

TV-G | 56 min | Documentary

A student group called Otpor! ("Resistance!" in Serbian) forms part of the nonviolent opposition movement that toppled the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.

Director: Steve York | Stars: Shahla Arasteh, Zoran Djindjic, Robert Helvey, Vojislav Kostunica

Votes: 92

44. Dziecinne pytania (1981)

97 min | Drama, Romance

A rebellious architecture student is sent to jail where he reminisces the last years of his uncompromising life.

Director: Janusz Zaorski | Stars: Adam Ferency, Gustaw Holoubek, Miroslaw Konarowski, Agnieszka Mandat

Votes: 39

45. Histoire de famille (2006)

165 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Michel Poulette | Stars: Maxim Roy, Juliette Gosselin, Serge Thériault, Evelyne Rompré

Votes: 122

46. 68 (2008 TV Movie)

110 min | Documentary, History, War

From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to London, a wave of demonstrations shakes the world. 68 travels back in time to war torn Vietnam, freed and occupied Prague, Paris demonstrating, revolution in the Americas.

Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Edouard Balladur, The Beatles, Claude Berri, Leonid Brezhnev

Votes: 66

47. Zemlja znanja (2011)

65 min | Documentary

On April 2009 students begin their 35-day occupation of the lecture theatres in Zagreb University's faculty of humanities and social sciences. Free education for one and all, they chant, ... See full summary »

Director: Sasa Ban

48. In Spring Breeze (2019)

136 min | Drama, Family, History

The film is about the language movement during 1952 in East Pakistan.

Director: Tauquir Ahmed | Stars: Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Siam Ahmed, Yashpal Sharma, Afroza Banu

Votes: 481

49. Training Rules (2009 Video)

Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, Drama, News

Examines how women's collegiate sports, caught in a web of homophobic practices, collude in the destruction of the lives and dreams of many of its most talented athletes.

Directors: Dee Mosbacher, Fawn Yacker | Stars: Cindy Davies, Lisa Faloon, Christine Gulas, Corinne Gulas

Votes: 96

50. The School We Went To (1980)

Drama

Students of a guidance school try to stand up against vice-principal's oppressing rules.

Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Ali Nasirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Amrollah Saberi, Ghassem Seif

Votes: 85